Dave Toole, CEO, Outhink Media and Node101 benefactor, co-founder Bay Area Node101, panel moderator
Josh Leo, videoblogger, founder of Node101 node in Michigan and mashup specialist
JD Lasica, Executive Director, Ourmedia.org
David Dudas, Eyespot
Jan McLaughlin, Road Node101

Our lives are all about who we are and what influences us as we go forward on our lives journey. We remix sounds and images and our own voice to communicate with those around us. This will be an interactive session to share a little and discuss a lot about the implications of how to freely express ourselves in our remix culture. What are the workflow options?

Panel discussion

Discover how we remix our lives in creating personal expression around ideas that are important to the creator of personal media. We will have some short demonstrations of how an original clip can be taken and built on with the help of others, how to take other clips and bring them into a new context in combining them with our own video, how to take music and add video to retell a story. We will discuss the workflows and techniques used to create them. We will engage the audience in discussion about what people are doing to make it easier to create personal expression, tools, editing tips; how and where to find useful video footage, music and audio; how to work both individually and in a group environment to create compelling remix works; where you can publish these; how to get the most out of other people’s footage, and what remixing and mashups mean for the videoblogging community.

Resource guide

In the weeks before Vloggercon, we will enlist the participation of the Videoblogging and Node101 mailing lists in creating a resource page that people can contribute to, listing various sources of music, audio and video that are legally available for remixing. (At the outset, we’ll do a page of links, with the goal of creating a database of freely shareable media). This resource guide will continue to be available to the videoblogging community after the conference ends.

Participation by Vloggercon community

Near the end of the opening remarks by Peter on Day 1, we would like him to mention a Mashup Event taking place as part of Vloggercon. Remix the conference, Remix your life. As part of this, attendees — and those online who couldn’t attend in person — will be encouraged to submit mashup videos as part of the event. We will make a group of Creative Commons and Public Domain clips available in a public SpinXpress group. Participants can use this as a media library for the remix/mashup. We may want to make it easy for people to create, so may want to limit it to a 30- or 60-second mashup. We will set up a destination showcase for people to upload and view their videos. We will help keep the conversation going after the close of the conference. The fun of remixing is seeing the different ways that each person reinterprets the same content.

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Dave Toole, CEO Outhink Media. A musician, Dave is interested in personal media publishing, especially collaborative mash-ups and re-mixes. Dave is a native of the San Francisco area and active with Node101, OurMedia and many local and international organizations that seek to improve the way people communicate and interact. Some of Dave’s recent projects include SpinXpress.com, TowerPod.com and the UC Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions.

Josh Leo (http://joshleo.com) has been videoblogging since March of 2005. He is an active member of the Videoblogging Community and teaches monthly videoblogging classes at the Community Media Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He works as an English-language radio producer and has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Mass Media from Calvin College.

Mary Hodder, CEO Dabble.  Dabble is a recently launched company aiming to be ‘ the most comprehensive search and remix community on the planet’, by helping users organize, search, tag, describe, promote, and request video for remixing.  Mary is interested in how regular people express themselves online, and the ways digital media can solve some of these problems.  She has a Masters at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley.